🎵 Travis Scott’s First Single Since the Astroworld Tragedy

Plus, Nas & Hit-Boy are the next MJ & Quincy Jones. Weyes Blood’s last minute entry for SOTY.

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9 min readNov 23, 2022

Taylor Swift dominated the AMAs on Sunday, bringing home six awards. She now has 40 total AMA wins — for reference, Michael Jackson has the second most with 26. See the full list of winners here.

While we’re on the subject of award shows, the Grammys have announced their nominations for 2023. Beyoncé leads the pack with nine, which means she and JAY-Z are now tied with 88, the most of all time. See the full list of nominations here.

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It’s been just over a year since the deadly crowd surge at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival claimed the lives of 10 people, including three children, the youngest just nine years old. In the immediate aftermath, Travis received enormous backlash. His headlining performance at the Day N Vegas festival was canceled. Both McDonald’s and Anheuser-Busch dissolved their partnerships with him. Nearly 300 multimillion-dollar lawsuits were filed. And conspiracy theories began circulating that his shows were satanic rituals. Everything Travis has…

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